Release Prerequisites

Operating Systems

This project is only supported under Mac or Ununtu operating system.

Download the source code

Open a terminal, go to the directory where you save the source code of this release tool, and run

$ git clone https://github.com/apache/incubator-openwhisk-release.git

The directory incubator-openwhisk-release becomes the home directory of openwhisk release tool, which will be referred to in the following context.

Install the dependencies

After running the “git clone” command to download the source code this release repository, you need to run the following command to install all the dependencies:

$ cd incubator-openwhisk-release/tools
$ ./install_dependencies.sh

For some old versions of Ubuntu, you probably need to run sudo apt-get update before running the script to install dependencies.

Your local machine should have the following packages, if the dependencies are installed:

  • svn
  • jq
  • gpg or gnupg and expect